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No. 355,224. Patented Dec. 28, 1886.

21" Q'VI% a flttorneys Nrrnn STATES ATENT rince.

MARK A. SMITH AND CHARLES F. YAEGER, OF EVANSVILLE, lNDlANA;

' SAID SMITH ASSIGNOR TO SAID YAEGER.

BROOM-WIRING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 355,224, dated December 28, 1886.

Application filed January 30, 1886. Serial No. 100,319.

To all whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that we, MARK A. SMITH and CHARLES F. Ynnena, citizens of the United States, residing at Evansville, in the county of Vanderburg and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Broom-WViring Machines and Presses; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a front elevation. Fig. 2 is a vertical central sectional View. Fig. 3 is a vertical section showing the movable jaw. Fig. 4 is a section showing the stationary jaw. ,Figs. 5, 6, and 7 are detail views.

Our invention relates to machines for flattening and holding brooms while the metallic binding-wires and the bridle are being secured thereon; and it consists in the construction and novel combination of parts, as hereinafter set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A designates the bed-plate, which is provided in its upper face with the two longitudinal parallel ribs B B,-which extend through recesses in the lower ends of the stationary upright G and the hinged upright D.

The lower end of the stationary upright O is secured to the bed-plate by mortises, tenons, and locking-pins, after the usual manner of framing timbers.

The hinged upright D is pivoted to the horizontal ribs B B by a transverse bolt-rod, 0, passed through the lower recessed end of the hinged upright and through the horizontal parallellongitudinal ribs B B. The stationary upright G is provided on its inner face with a fixed clamping-jaw, E, which projects above the upper end of the body portion of said upright, and this jaw E is provided with a horizontal transverse groove, F, in its inner face,

to receive one-half, or thereabout, of each of the two binding-wires or bridle-wires Gr G which are used in our improved construction of brooms.

' H designates a spring, secured at its lower (ModcL) end to the stationary upright, and hearing at its upper end against the hinged upright, the object of which is to hold the hinged upright normally open or away from the stationary upright.

The hinged upright D is also provided with a clamping-jaw, I, which has in its inner face .a horizontal transverse groove, 1, which is opposed to the transverse groove F, and is designed to receive the other half, or thereabout, of each of the two binding-wires used in our improved construction of binding brooms.

The hinged upright D is provided near its lower end with slotted guide-flanges G G on its inner face near its edges, in the slots K of which the hinge-rod K for thelower arms, N N, of the compressor-plates M M works. The upper arms, L L, of thecompressor-plates are hinged to the upper ends of the lower arms, N N, and these compressor-plates are in the shape of flanged formers, to give outline to the upp er portion of the broom-body. Metal straps O O are pivoted to the edges of the stationary upright near its upper end, and extend horizontally across and beyond the hinged upright, and between the projecting ends of said metal straps is pivoted a compression-lever or camlever, P, the function of which is to compress and hold the hinged upright and its compressor-plate against the broom-body when the latter is in place ready to be wire-bouhd an bridled.

The clamping-jaw E is provided with a cross-rod at its upper end, at the middle of which is fulcrumed a bending-lever, Q. The lever Q is provided with a grooved toe or point, Q the groove being made vertical therein to fit the wire Sthat is, to be bent over the bridle-wires. This wire S is to be first provided with a bend, S, at each end, and

dle-wires, the grooved end of the bending-leverengaging the cross-wire and forming the hook on the unbent end of the latter. A pivoted lever, V, is connected by a rod or arm, V,

to one of the compressor-arms, and the outer' end of this leverV is provided with handle W, the power end or handle of said angle-lever passing through a vertical slot, W, provided with a detent-rack, to hold the lever to its adjustments, said vertical slot \V being made through the stationary upright near one edge of the same. By this construction the compressor-plates can be raised or lowered to elevate or depress the broom-blank to enable the operator to properly wire the broom while in the machine. The encircling wire that is commonly used around the butts of the broomstraw is also used with these binding-wires, and is placed on in any well known manner prior to the time of applying our improved binding-wires.

Having described this inventio11,.what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. The combination, with the bed-plate having the stationary upright provided with the transversely-grooved clamping-jaw with the vertical middle slot, the bendinglever with the vertically-grooved toe, the power-lever, and the hook-rod connecting the bending and power levers, of the hinged upright with the transversely-grooved clamping-jaw with middle slot, the hinged compressor-plates, and the cam-lever fulcrumed between the pivoted horizontal strap-arms secured to the stationary uprights, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with the stationary upright and the hinged upright secured to the base, and provided at their upper ends with the rigid transversely-grooved clamping-jaws having vertical middle slots in their transverse grooves, of the pivoted strap-arms with cam-lever, the hinged adjustable compressorplates, the bending lever with verticallygrooved toe, the power-lever, and the hookrod connecting the power-lever and bendinglever, substantially as specified.

3. The combination, with the bed-plate having the stationary upright and the hinged upright, the transversely-grooved clamping-jaws with vertical middle slots, the bending-lever connecting with the power-lever, and the compressorplates having the hinged arms con-' nected by a cross-rod working in slots in flanged arms on the hinged upright, of the pivoted angle-lever having its power end working in a rack-slot in the stationary upright, and connected by a vertical pivot-arm to one of the compressor-plates, substantially as specified.

4. The combination, with the bedplate, stationary upright, hinged upright, andtransversely-grooved clamping-jaws, with middle vertical slots intersecting their grooves, of the clam ping-lever, the compressor-plates, and the vertically grooved bending-lever connected with a power-lever, substantially as specified. In testimony whereof we aifix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

MARK A. SMITH. CHARLES F. YAZEGER.

\Vitnesses: E. E. JENKINS, JOHN N'URRE. 

